Roger Deakins
Born 1949 · British cinematographer
Sir Roger Alexander Deakins ASC, BSC is an English cinematographer. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential cinematographers in cinema history, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and five BAFTA Awards for Best Cinematography. He has collaborated multiple times with directors such as the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, Michael Radford, and Denis Villeneuve. Some of his best-known works include The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Fargo (1996), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), No Country for Old Men (2007), True Grit (2010), Skyfall (2012), Sicario (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and 1917 (2019), the last two of which earned him Academy Awards.
Roger Deakins, in order
- 1980 Blue Suede Shoes: shot · directed by Curtis Clark
- 1983 Another Time, Another Place: shot · directed by Michael Radford
- 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four: shot · directed by Michael Radford
- 1985 Defence of the Realm: shot · directed by David Drury · critics 100%, audiences 68% · streaming on Prime Video, Fawesome, Tubi
- 1985 Shadey: shot · directed by Philip Saville
- 1985 The Innocent: shot · directed by John Mackenzie
- 1986 Sid and Nancy: shot · directed by Alex Cox · critics 88%, audiences 76%
- 1987 Personal Services: shot · directed by Terry Jones
- 1987 Story of a Junkie: shot · directed by Lech Kowalski
- 1987 White Mischief: shot · directed by Michael Radford
- 1988 Pascali's Island: shot · directed by James Dearden
- 1988 Stormy Monday: shot · directed by Mike Figgis
- 1988 Woman in the Moon: shot · directed by Vito Zagarrio
- 1989 Francesco: shot · directed by Liliana Cavani
- 1990 Air America: shot · directed by Roger Spottiswoode
- 1990 Mountains of the Moon: shot · directed by Bob Rafelson
- 1990 The Long Walk Home: shot · directed by Richard Pearce
- 1991 Barton Fink: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 89%, audiences 89% · streaming on Hoopla
- 1991 Homicide: shot · directed by David Mamet
- 1992 Passion Fish: shot · directed by John Sayles
- 1992 Thunderheart: shot · directed by Michael Apted
- 1993 The Secret Garden: shot · directed by Agnieszka Holland
- 1994 The Hudsucker Proxy: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 61%, audiences 79% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, Tubi
- 1994 The Shawshank Redemption: shot · directed by Frank Darabont · critics 89%, audiences 98% · streaming on Philo, MGM+
- 1995 Dead Man Walking: shot · directed by Tim Robbins · critics 97%, audiences 86% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Paramount+
- 1995 Rob Roy: shot · directed by Michael Caton-Jones · critics 72%, audiences 75% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Hoopla
- 1996 Courage Under Fire: shot · directed by Edward Zwick · critics 85%, audiences 66%
- 1996 Fargo: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 95%, audiences 92% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Peacock
- 1997 Kundun: shot · directed by Martin Scorsese · critics 74%, audiences 78%
- 1998 SLC Punk!: shot · directed by James Merendino · critics 68%, audiences 89% · streaming on Roku Channel, YouTube (free), Tubi
- 1998 The Big Lebowski: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 79%, audiences 93% · streaming on Pluto TV
- 1998 The Siege: shot · directed by Edward Zwick · critics 42%, audiences 53% · streaming on Prime Video, Starz
- 1999 Anywhere but Here: shot · directed by Wayne Wang
- 1999 The Hurricane: shot · directed by Norman Jewison · critics 83%, audiences 87% · streaming on Starz
- 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 79%, audiences 89% · streaming on Prime Video
- 2001 A Beautiful Mind: shot · directed by Ron Howard · critics 74%, audiences 93% · streaming on Apple TV
- 2001 Dinner with Friends (TV movie): shot · directed by Norman Jewison
- 2001 The Man Who Wasn't There: shot · directed by Joel Coen · critics 81%, audiences 85%
- 2003 House of Sand and Fog: shot · directed by Vadim Perelman · critics 74%, audiences 83% · streaming on Hoopla
- 2003 Intolerable Cruelty: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 76%, audiences 48%
- 2003 Levity: shot · directed by Ed Solomon
- 2004 The Ladykillers: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
- 2004 The Village: shot · directed by M. Night Shyamalan · critics 43%, audiences 57%
- 2005 Jarhead: shot · directed by Sam Mendes · critics 60%, audiences 68% · streaming on Netflix, Starz
- 2007 In the Valley of Elah: shot · directed by Paul Haggis
- 2007 No Country for Old Men: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 93%, audiences 86% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
- 2007 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: shot · directed by Andrew Dominik · critics 77%, audiences 75%
- 2008 Doubt: shot · directed by John Patrick Shanley · critics 79%, audiences 78% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, Paramount+
- 2008 Revolutionary Road: shot · directed by Sam Mendes · critics 66%, audiences 71% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
- 2008 The Reader: shot · directed by Stephen Daldry
- 2009 A Serious Man: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 89%, audiences 68%
- 2010 How to Train Your Dragon: shot · directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois · critics 99%, audiences 91% · streaming on Paramount+, Peacock
- 2010 The Company Men: shot · directed by John Wells
- 2010 True Grit: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 95%, audiences 85% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Kanopy
- 2011 In Time: shot · directed by Andrew Niccol
- 2011 Rango: shot · directed by Gore Verbinski · critics 89%, audiences 70% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Peacock
- 2012 Skyfall: shot · directed by Sam Mendes · critics 92%, audiences 86% · streaming on Prime Video, MGM+
- 2013 Prisoners: shot · directed by Denis Villeneuve · critics 82%, audiences 87% · streaming on Apple TV
- 2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2: shot · directed by Dean DeBlois
- 2014 Unbroken: shot · directed by Angelina Jolie
- 2015 Sicario: shot · directed by Denis Villeneuve · critics 91%, audiences 85% · streaming on HBO Max
- 2016 Hail, Caesar!: shot · directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen · critics 86%, audiences 44%
- 2017 Blade Runner 2049: shot · directed by Denis Villeneuve · critics 88%, audiences 88% · streaming on Prime Video, Paramount+
- 2019 1917: shot · directed by Sam Mendes · critics 88%, audiences 88% · streaming on Netflix
- 2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: shot · directed by Dean DeBlois
- 2019 The Goldfinch: shot · directed by John Crowley · critics 24%, audiences 72%
- 2022 Empire of Light: shot · directed by Sam Mendes
- Wolcott (TV series): shot · directed by Colin Bucksey